Development of a transformational mobile robot to search victims under debris and rubbles

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 46-51

  Tabata, Katsuhiko ^a   Inaba, Akio ^a   Zhang, Qin ^a   Amano, Hisanori ^b  

^a Gifu Prefectural Research Institute of Manufacturing Information Technology   (Japan)

^b National Res Fustitute of Fire and Disaster   (Japan)

Author keywords

Great scale disaster; Mobile robot; Relief activities; Transformational

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPONENTS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DEBRIS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS;

GREAT SCALE DISASTER; RELIEF ACTIVITIES; TRANSFORMATIONAL MOBILE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 14044257937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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